Japan reactor gets go-ahead
Two years after it shut down following an earthquake, the world's largest nuclear station has won approval from the Japanese government to commercially operate one of its seven reactors.
Other short excerpts from this article:
Tokyo Electric has posted losses since the plant's closure two years ago, forcing it to switch to more expensive fossil fuels. In the first quarter of this year, Tokyo Electric's power sales to industrial users dropped 5.8 percent.
and this important point, which seems fairly astonishing to the burn-as-you-go crowd:
Japan currently depends on 55 nuclear reactors for 30 percent of its electricity.
Getting the Kashiwazaki Kariwa station back online completely is a very important step to maintain the vitality of nuclear power as a fossil fuel (which I also like to call the "dead-end fuel") alternative.
It's a very clean and lovely site, if you're into things like this (one has to get used to my aesthetic sensibilities of an energetic kind):
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